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Dog Bite Statistics

It is believed there are Pit Bull, and Pit Bull crosses (dogs that upon visual inspection have
14 or more characteristics of the three breeds of dogs that fall within the Town’s breed ban,
or 51% of the genetic/DNA make-up of the three breeds of dogs that fall within the Town’s
breed ban). It is hard to know how many such dogs are currently in Town because
typically, unless there is an issue involving Animal Control Officers, or Law Enforcement
Officers, these dogs appear to largely go unnoticed.
In the last ten years there were approximately 600 (cat and dog) bites in the Town.
historical estimates, which place the number of purpose-bred are involved, allow the audience to choose sides when
APBTs matched in pit contests somewhere between 1 and looking to place blame: Are pit bulls inherently dangerous,
10 percent. Therefore, comparing the temperaments and or is it all in how you raise them? Which is more important,
behaviors of elite fighting dogs with those of all pit bulls is human rights or animal rights? Which is stronger, nature

Of the 600 bites, approximately 20 involved Pit Bulls and Pit Bull crosses.
a bit like using the U.S. Navy SEALs as a benchmark for all or nurture? Like the existence of God, a woman’s right to
American men. Fortunately for the canine victims involved, choose, or the ethics of capital punishment, such reductions
law enforcement officials are seeing the numbers of APBTs are good at creating conflict (and conflict drives narrative,
bred for fighting dwindle, thanks to increased awareness which in turn draws viewers and clicks), but they foreclose
and tougher enforcement of cruelty laws. They insist that the possibility of solving the complicated problems of cruelty
the overwhelming majority of pit bulls, like most dogs in and violence.
America, live uneventful lives as family pets.
Underneath America’s need to define a singular “truth”

Of the 600 bites, 21 were categorized as “severe,” and none involved


You would not know this from reading, watching, or about pit bulls is a much more revealing division: that pit
listening to the news. Nor would you know that only about bulls are not for people like “us”— the respectable and
thirty-five Americans are killed by any type of dog each morally upstanding members of society; pit bulls belong to
year, as opposed to the thirty-five thousand who die of them.

a Pit Bull or a Pit Bull cross. With regard to the 21 “severe” bites, there were 4 Black
accidental overdoses or the thirty-six thousand who perish in
car accidents. Unlike overdoses and car accidents, however,
exceedingly rare events like dog attacks terrify the most
-Bronwen Dickey, Pit Bull:
The Battle over an American Icon

Lab/Yellow Lab/mixes; 4 Huskies; 2 Boxer/mixes; 2 German Shepherds; 2 Cats; 1 Alaskan


primitive, reptilian parts of our brains. And unlike falls or
drownings, which also account for thousands of American
deaths each year, dog bite deaths, especially when pit bulls

Malamute; 1 Australian Sheppard; 1 Belgian


Malinois; 1 Borzoi; 1 Great Pyrenees; 1 Mastiff;
and 1 Rottweiler.

Efforts to compile data from some of our


neighboring jurisdictions has been difficult because
not all jurisdictions record data the same way,
or track bite data based on breeds of dogs.

However, data compiled with regard to Centennial, ii Breed-specific legislation toolkit

unincorporated Douglas County, unincorporated Castle Rock, and unincorporated Parker


has been analyzed. None of these jurisdictions have Breed-Specific Legislation.

For additional information, please see the Board identifying dog bite data in the
City of Centennial, Unincorporated Douglas County with Castle Rock Mailing Address,
Unincorporated Douglas County and Unincorporated Parker Dog Bites 2010-2017
by Breed and Severity.

CRgov.com/Animals
City of Centennial
City DogDog
of Centennial Bites 2010-2017
Bites 2010-2017by
byBreed andSeverity
Breed and Severity
Animal to Animal Animal to Human Animal to Both Animal and Human

CRgov.com/Animals
Minor No. Moderate No. Severe No. Fatal No. Unknown No. Minor No. Moderate No. Severe No. Fatal Unknown No. Minor No. Moderate No. Severe No. Unknown No.
Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites

BOXER 9 GERM SHEPHERD 7 AMER BULLDOG 1 SIBERIAN HUSKY 2 PIT BULL 9 LABRADOR RETR 58 LABRADOR RETR 25 BORDER COLLIE 2 No data GERM SHEPHERD 3 PIT BULL 3 BOXER 1 PIT BULL 2 AMER BULLDOG 1
LABRADOR RETR 8 LABRADOR RETR 4 AMERICAN STAFF 1 GERM SHEPHERD 1 LABRADOR RETR 8 GERM SHEPHERD 27 GERM SHEPHERD 15 GERM SHEPHERD 2 LABRADOR RETR 3 LABRADOR RETR 2 PIT BULL 1 ROTTWEILER 1
GERM SHEPHERD 6 PIT BULL 4 BORDER COLLIE 1 LABRADOR RETR 1 AUST CATTLE DOG 4 CHIHUAHUA SH 26 BOXER 13 AKITA 1 MIN PINSCHER 2 AMER BULLDOG 1 ROTTWEILER 1
AMER BULLDOG 2 BOXER 2 CHESA BAY RETR 1 BOXER 4 AUST CATTLE DOG 19 BORDER COLLIE 9 AMER BULLDOG 1 PIT BULL 2 BOSTON TERRIER 1
BORDER COLLIE 2 SHIBA INU 2 GERM SHEPHERD 1 GERM SHEPHERD 3 GOLDEN RETR 17 AUST CATTLE DOG 6 AUST CATTLE DOG 1 TERRIER 2 GOLDEN RETR 1
MASTIFF 2 SIBERIAN HUSKY 2 LABRADOR RETR 1 GREAT PYRENEES 3 PIT BULL 17 AUST SHEPHERD 6 AUST SHEHERD 1 AUST SHEPHERD 1 LHASA APSO 1
PIT BULL 2 AKITA 1 PIT BULL 1 MASTIFF 3 TERRIER 15 AKITA 5 BOXER 1 BEAGLE 1 POODLE STND 1
STAFFORDSHIRE 2 AMER BULLDOG 1 ROTTWEILER 1 AMER BULLDOG 2 BORDER COLLIE 14 AMER BULLDOG 5 CHOW CHOW 1 BOXER 1 WELSH CORGI CAR 1
AKITA 1 AUST CATTLE DOG 1 SIBERIAN HUSKY 1 AUST SHEPHERD 2 AUST SHEPHERD 12 CHOW CHOW 5 COCKER SPAN 1 CHIHUAHUA LN 1
ALASK MALAMUTE 1 BORDER COLLIE 1 CANE CORSO 2 BOXER 12 GOLDEN RETR 5 ENG SPRNGR SPAN 1 COCKER SPAN 1
AMERICAN STAFF 1 CHESA BAY RETR 1 JACK RUSS TER 2 MASTIFF 9 ROTTWEILER 5 GREAT DANE 1 GOLDEN RETR 1
AUST CATTLE DOG 1 CHINESE SHARPEI 1 SHIBA INU 2 AMER BULLDOG 8 DACHSHUND 4 LABRADOR RETR 1 JACK RUSS TER 1
BERNESE MTN DOG 1 ENG BULLDOG 1 ST BERNARD RGT 2 COCKER SPAN 8 MASTIFF 4 NS DUCK TOLLING 1 JINDO 1
BULL TERR MIN 1 WEIMARANER 2 ROTTWEILER 8 PIT BULL 4 PIT BULL 1 KOMODOR 1
CATAHOULA 1 AIREDALE TERR 1 SHIH TZU 8 SIBERIAN HUSKY 4 ROTTWEILER 1 POODLE TOY 1
CHESA BAY RETR 1 AKITA 1 BEAGLE 6 BERNESE MTN DOG 3 SHIBA INU 1 ROTTWEILER 1
ENG BULLDOG 1 ALASK MALAMUTE 1 JACK RUSS TER 6 CHESA BAY RETR 3 TIBETAN TERR 1 SHETLD SHEEPDOG 1
ENG SPRNGR SPAN 1 ANATOL SHEPHERD 1 MIN PINSCHER 6 GERM SH POINT 3 SHIBA INU 1
FLAT COAT RETR 1 BERNESE MTN DOG 1 YORKSHIRE TERR 6 RHOD RIDGEBACK 3 TIBETAN TERR 1
GERM SH POINT 1 BULLMASTIFF 1 BICHON FRISE 5 SHIBA INU 3
OLD ENG BULLDOG 1 CHINESE SHARPEI 1 GREAT DANE 5 BICHON RISE 2
Police does not enforce HOA requirements.

HOAs may have more restrictions than the


Castle Rock Municipal Code. Castle Rock

PUG 1 DACHSHUND 1 LHASA APSO 5 BLACK MOUTH CUR 2


RHOD RIDGEBACK 1 DOBERMAN PINSCH 1 POODLE MIN 5 BLACK/TAN HOUND 2
ROTTWEILER 1 ENG SPRNGR SPAN 1 PUG 5 CATAHOULA 2
SIBERIAN HUSKY 1 IBIZAN HOUND 1 SCHNAUZER MIN 5 ENG BULLDOG 2
YORKSHIRE TERR 1 IRISH SETTER 1 SIBERIAN HUSKY 5 GREAT DANE 2
REDBONE HOUND 1 WEST HIGHLAND 5 JACK RUSS TER 2
RHOD RIDGEBACK 1 CHOW CHOW 4 TERRIER 2
ROTTWEILER 1 DACHSHUND 4 WEIMARANER 2
SCHNAUZER MIN 1
SIBERIAN HUSKY 1
WHIPPET 1
Total Bites by 51 Total Bites by 28 Total Bites by 9 Total Bites by 4 Total Bites by 66 ** The remaining 115 445 ** The remaining 32 180 Total Bites by 19 0 Total Bites by 26 Total Bites by 11 Total Bites by 3 Total 2 Total Bites by 2
Category Category Category Category Category bites involves bites involves breeds Category Category Category Category Bites by Category
breeds where there where there were 1 Category
were 3 or less bites bite per breed

Unincorporated Unincorporated
Douglas County with
Douglas Castle
County withRock
CastleMailing Address
Rock Mailing - Dog
Address Bitesby2010-2017
2010-2017 by Breed and Severity
Breed and Severity
Animal to Animal Animal to Human Animal to Both Animal
and Human
Minor No. Moderate Severe No. Fatal Unknown No. Minor No. Moderate No. Severe Fatal Unknown No. Minor Moderate Severe Unknown
Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites
CHINESE SHARPEI 1 No data AMER BULLDOG 1 No data BORDER COLLIE 1 GERM SHEPHERD 9 GERM SHEPHERD 2 No data No data LABRADOR RETR 4 No data No data No data No data
BOXER 1 LABRADOR RETR 6 AUST SHEPHERD 1 AUST CATTLE DOG 2
DUTCH SHEPHERD 1 BOXER 3 COTON DE TULEAR 1 GERM SHEPHERD 2
GERM SHEPHERD 1 AMER ESKIMO 2 LABRADOR RETR 1 BERNESE MTN DOG 1
PIT BULL 1 AUST CATTLE DOG 2 BICHON FRISE 1
PLOTT HOUND 1 AUST SHEPHERD 2 ROTTWEILER 1
ROTTWEILER 1 DACHSHUND 2 SIBERIAN HUSKY 1
SIBERIAN HUSKY 1 DOBERMAN PINSCH 2 VIZSLA 1
ENG SPRNGR SPAN 2
GOLDEN RETR 2
RAT TERRIER 2
Total Bites by 1 0 Total Bites by 1 0 Total Bites by 8 ** The remaining 12 46 Total Bites by 5 0 0 Total Bites by 13 0 0 0 0
Category Category Category bites involves breeds Category Category
where there were 1
bite per breed

HOAs may have more restrictions than the


Castle Rock Municipal Code. Castle Rock
CRgov.com/Animals Police does not enforce HOA requirements.
Unincorporated
Unincorporated Douglas
Douglas County
County Dog
Dog Bites
Bites 2010-2017
2010-2017 by by Breed
Breed andand Severity
Severity
CRgov.com/Animals Animal to Animal Animal to Human Animal to Both Animal and Human
Minor No. Moderate No. Severe No. Fatal No. Unknown No. Minor No. Moderate No. Severe No. Fatal Unknown No. Minor No. Moderate No. Severe Unknown
Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites
BEAGLE 1 LABRADOR RETR 2 AKITA 1 AKITA 2 PIT BULL 6 LABRADOR RETR 69 GERM SHEPHERD 24 GERM SHEPHERD 2 No data LABRADOR RETR 9 ALASK MALAMUTE 3 CHESA BAY RETR 1 No data No data
CHOW CHOW 1 PIT BULL 2 LABRADOR RETR 1 AMER BULLDOG 3 GERM SHEPHERD 44 LABRADOR RETR 20 ROTTWEILER 2 BOXER 7 PIT BULL 2
FRENCH BULLDOG 1 ROTTWEILER 2 GERM SHEPHERD 3 AUST SHEPHERD 35 PIT BULL 10 SIBERIAN HUSKY 2 AUST CATTLE DOG 6 AUST CATTLE DOG 1
GERM WH POINT 1 MASTIFF 3 PIT BULL 28 AUST CATTLE DOG 9 AUST SHEPHERD 1 AUST SHEPHERD 5 SCHNAUZER GIANT 1
IRISH WOLFHOUND 1 TERRIER 3 AUST CATTLE DOG 22 AUST SHEPHERD 6 BOXER 1 GERM SHEPHERD 5 SCHNAUZER MIN 1
PIT BULL 1 AKITA 2 BORDER COLLIE 22 BORDER COLLIE 6 CHESA BAY RETR 1 SIBERIAN HUSKY 5
SIBERIAN HUSKY 1 ANATOL SHEPHERD 2 CHIHUAHUA SH 19 GOLDEN RETR 5 CHINESE SHARPEI 1
AUST CATTLE DOG 2 BOXER 16 BOXER 4 GREAT DANE 1
LABRADOR RETR 2 DACHSHUND 16 ROTTWEILER 4 GREYHOUND 1
SIBERIAN HUSKY 2 SIBERIAN HUSKY 14 SIBERIAN HUSKY 4 LABRADOR RETR 1
TERRIER 4 PIT BULL 1
move

PRESA CANARIO 1
SHIBA INU 1

Total Bites by 7 Total Bites by 6 Total 1 Total Bites by 3 ** The remaining 11 39 ** The remaining 534 ** The remaining 53 149 Total Bites by 16 0 ** The remaining 53 90 Total Bites by 8 Total Bites by 1 0 0
Category Category Bites by Category bites involves breeds 249 bites involves bites involves Category bites involves Category Category
Category where there were 1 breeds where there breeds where there breeds where there
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bite per breed were 11 bites or were 3 bites or less were 4 bites or less
less per breed per breed per breed
Police does not enforce HOA requirements.

HOAs may have more restrictions than the


Castle Rock Municipal Code. Castle Rock

Unincorporated Parker
Unincorporated Dog Bites
Parker 2010-2017
Dog Bites by by
2010-2017 Breed and
Breed Severity
and Severity
Animal to Animal Animal to Human Animal to Both Animal and
Human
update

Minor Moderate No. Severe Fatal No. Unknown No. Minor No. Moderate No. Severe No. Fatal Unknown No. Minor Moderate Severe Unknown
Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites Bites
No data AUST CATTLE DOG 1 No data ROTTWEILER 3 AUST CATTLE DOG 2 LABRADOR RETR 13 GERM SHEPHERD 3 CHOW CHOW 1 No data AUST SHEPHERD 3 No data No data No data No data
BOXER 1 BOXER 1 LABRADOR RETR 2 GERM SHEPHERD 5 BLACK MOUTH CUR 1 AMER FOXHOUND 1
KEY

PIT BULL 1 PIT BULL 1 BOXER 1 JACK RUSS TER 5 BORDER COLLIE 1 BLOODHOUND 1
revision is an update.
proposed ordinance
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GERM SHEPHERD 1 AUST CATTLE DOG 4 BOXER 1 GERM SH POINT 1


GREYHOUND 1 PIT BULL 4 CHOW CHOW 1 GERM SHEPHERD 1
LABRADOR RETR 1 PIT BULL 1
MASTIFF 1 SCHNAUZER MIN 1
PIT BULL 1 TIBETAN MASTIFF 1
RHOD RIDGEBACK 1
ROTTWEILER 1
TERRIER 1

0 Total Bites by 3 0 Total Bites by 5 Total Bites by 8 ** The remaining 36 67 Total Bites by 13 Total Bites by 1 0 Total Bites by 10 0 0 0 0
Category Category Category bites involves breeds Category Category Category
where there were 3
bites or less per breed
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HOAs may have more restrictions than the


Castle Rock Municipal Code. Castle Rock
CRgov.com/Animals Police does not enforce HOA requirements.

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